by admin | Oct 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Seek Legal Advice It’s crucial to get expert legal advice early. Fitness to practise investigations are a trial in all but name – complex, formal and adversarial. For this reason alone, health and care professionals should seek legal advice. However, this is by no...
by admin | Sep 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
KD’s registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) was refused. KD approached Kings View seeking advice on appeal. Kings View fitness to practise defence barrister, Catherine Stock, commenting on KD’s case, said: “The focus of our advice was...
by admin | Dec 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
A review of Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) has found “serious concerns about the HCPC’s performance in its fitness to practise work.” The most recent PSA review of the HCPC has found that it is only meeting one...
by admin | Nov 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Whilst there are many things about the virus that is devastating, one positive is that it forced upon healthcare regulators the need to reform, adapt and do so quickly. What this has shown is that fitness to practise regulation does not need to be drawn out, rigid...
by admin | Feb 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
I have previously written about the importance of engagement with a fitness to practise investigation and process. In our previous article, we reported on research published by the General Medical Council (GMC) that found that the outcome of tribunal decisions was...
